Zhao Cheng's current state was undoubtedly wondrous. He was an unprecedented True Calamity Seed; his entire cultivation and condition could no longer be measured by the ninth-rank framework at all. He had completely headed in another direction.
An unprecedented direction.
No True Calamity powerhouse before him had possessed such immense potential, such enormous possibilities.
After all, before him, entry into the True Calamity realm had begun at the Three Calamities.
This was undoubtedly like a person being born already in their twenties—firm in their outlook on the world, capable of standing on their own, yet with their plasticity also becoming exceedingly limited. From there, every further step upward would become hundreds or thousands of times harder.
Yet he was still only a True Calamity Seed, not even one calamity complete!
The greatest significance of this was that his possibilities might be enough to carry him all the way to the height of the Nine Calamities without strangling too many possibilities, without becoming utterly fixed.
Zhao Cheng even had a feeling that if he could seize this crucial juncture of growth, he would have a chance to surpass the Nine Calamities and cultivate the legendary "Ten Calamities"!
This was an attainment none of Heavenly Origin's Great Venerables throughout the ages had ever possessed.
Indeed, reincarnation and attaining True Calamity had washed away too much from him and caused him to forget too much. That was the price of rebirth. But in the end, he had still retained some things.
As far as he knew, the Great Venerables of Heavenly Origin throughout the ages had reached no higher than the Nine Calamities.
Or rather, among all known powerful lifeforms, the Nine Calamities were the absolute pinnacle.
The nine wondrous realms merged with one another, and nine mighty concepts unbound by all restraints